The Day After Tomorrow

Reviewed by:
Paul Ulane

Combining a multimillion-dollar ad campaign with a fictional national threat might get you four years in the White House, but it doesn't necessarily translate into box-office gold. The Day After Tomorrow, despite its wanton destruction of Los Angeles, comes up short as a disaster movie, drowning in a morass of cheesy dialogue, sappy clichés, and…well, floodwater. If that's not enough for you to avoid the end of the world as Hollywood knows it, the DVD's features crumble all on their own. Tomorrow can't even pull off deleted scenes, offering two slightly tweaked versions of shots already in the film, while "Audio Anatomy" lets aspiring boom mike operators select from eight audio tracks during a minute-and-a-half feature that's interesting to exactly nobody else. The commentary has amusing moments, but only because producer Mark Gordon keeps harping on negative press reviews without a trace of irony. In the DVD's worst move, the rest of the extras are on a jumbled DVD-ROM package that makes navigating downtown Manhattan in the throes of a second ice age pale in comparison.

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